My trip to Deer Camp

First, let me start this post with this statement. I feel honored that my husband wanted me to come with him to Deer Camp. When I was growing up, my daddy went to Deer Camp and it was his time with the guys. No girls allowed. It was his own mini-vacay weekend. He would come back with hair on his face and stinky. Guys didn’t shave at Deer Camp as they had no one to impress and showers were for wimps.

We started our weekend on Friday morning after our daughter went to school. My husband graciously accepted that I was going to photo-document our trip and even pointed out various subjects to capture with my iPhone camera.

Yes, I took my iPhone with me into the deer stand. No, I did not have 4G. Heck, I barely had E {edge}. I couldn’t Instagram.AT.ALL. while we were there. My last contact with IG was a convo with Sarah that soon moved to text messages. These photos were posted #latergram on Sunday afternoon on our drive back to reality.

We arrived at Deer Camp early enough in the afternoon on Friday to unpack and make it to the deer stand before the feeder went off, signally the deer that it was time to come out of hiding. It was enjoyable for me to see so many deer at one time from the deer stand. We saw several 8 point bucks, a 6 pointer, and a small 4 point as well as numerous doe.

Since we didn’t have internet {really, the Edge does NOT count}, we would stay up for an hour or two after dark looking at the stars and then be asleep before nine o’clock {we typically go to sleep in our real world around 1 a.m.}. This meant that we were well-rested for our 5 a.m. {ok, 5:30 a.m. after hitting snooze} wake-up call to arrive at the deer stand early enough to be settled before the feeder went off and the sun rose.

Oh and did I not mention that I took an amazing nap on Saturday after our obscenely early lunch and before our afternoon hunt?!?!?!?!! It.Was.Fabulous. I slept and was completely relaxed for a couple of hours.

Saturday afternoon, my husband shot a doe as he had already maxed out on the number of bucks that he could hunt at this lease. It was fascinating to watch him gut {field dress} the deer. Reminded me of Biology class, dissecting frogs and fetal pigs.

We went out again on Sunday morning and it was so much fun – watching the deer and whispering in the stand.

After we got back to camp, we loaded up and headed out {back to reality}. We enjoyed a relaxing and very filling lunch at Olive Garden in Austin. We simply had to stop at Berdoll’s and take pictures with the big squirrel. Yes, I picked up some homemade fudge – four different flavors and each had pecans.

I am looking forward to going with my husband to Deer Camp again next year.